This folder contains the full reproduction materials for

Peez, Anton (2025): Re-examining the Effects of Western Sanctions on Democracy and Human Rights in the 21st Century. In: Political Science Research and Methods.

There are two ways to reproduce the results presented in the manuscript:

A. 	Compiling ('knitting') the RMarkdown file "03-Manuscript.Rmd"
	This calls the R script "02-Full-Script.R" from the Rmd file.
	You can navigate between the R and Rmd files by searching for the @knitr tags.

	This creates a full typeset PDF and files as outlined below, as well as the necessary files in "03-Manuscript_files".

	You may also call:
	pandoc::pandoc_activate(version = '3.1.6')
	rmarkdown::render('03-Manuscript.Rmd', output_format = 'all')

	However, knitting from Rmd can be fragile depending on package versions, etc.
	For pure reproduction, I would recommend:

B. 	Executing the R script "02-Full-Script.R"
	This produces individual tables (as HTML files) and figures (as PNG files).
	This will work better for the tables, as it creates them as neat, standalone HTML files, which the above does not.
	(Due to compatibility issues between RMarkdown, TeX, knitr, and kableExtra).

Both procedures create files with the same numbering as those in the final manuscript, e.g. 99-Tab-01.html or 99-Fig-01.png.
(The prefix "99-" eases sorting the final reproduction output alphabetically; produced files will be listed in order.)

For reference, the pre-print is available at:

	https://osf.io/ge7at

Please email if you have any questions about these materials.

Anton Peez
peez@em.uni-frankfurt.de
https://antonpeez.github.io/